![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/sunaks-video-brag-about-snatching-cash-from-deprived-areas-sparks-probe-calls/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0_BRITAIN-POLITICS-PARLIAMENT.jpg&description=The Prime Minister was today confronted over a secretly filmed video taken as he addressed Tory members in leafy Tunbridge Wells over the summerRishi Sunak was today confronted over the video taken over the summerRishi Sunak has been told to come clean about how he funnelled cash from deprived urban areas as he was confronted over a damning video showed him bragging about it. The Prime Minister was secretly filmed addressing Tory members in leafy Tunbridge Wells saying he had reversed funding formulas which "shoved all funding into deprived urban areas" to benefit "areas like this". Mr Sunak, who was campaigning for the Tory leadership at the time, was branded a "Reverse Robin Hood" after the clip leaked. Labour today called for an independent investigation into the comments. In their first head-to-head at Prime Minister's Questions today, Labour leader Keir Starmer fumed: "He (Mr Sunak) pretends he's on the side of working people, but in private he says something very different. "In the summer he was secretly recorded at a garden party in Tunbridge Wells boasting to a group of Tory members that he moved money away from deprived urban areas to wealthy places instead." Rishi Sunak delays Halloween wave of austerity and sets new D-day for Brits The Prime Minister faced the Commons in his first PMQs since taking office ( PA) Mr Starmer demanded: "Why doesn't he do the right thing and undo the changes he made to this funding formula?" The video, shared with The New Statesman, showed Mr Sunak tell members in Tunbridge Wells - which has had a Tory MP since the constituency was created in 1974: 'I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserve because we inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. "I started the work of undoing that.' According to RightMove, the average house price in the leafy town 30 miles outside of London){kind=link}
The Prime Minister was today confronted over a secretly filmed video taken as he addressed Tory members in leafy Tunbridge Wells over the summer
Rishi Sunak has been told to come clean about how he funnelled cash from deprived urban areas as he was confronted over a damning video showed him bragging about it.
The Prime Minister was secretly filmed addressing Tory members in leafy Tunbridge Wells saying he had reversed funding formulas which “shoved all funding into deprived urban areas” to benefit “areas like this”.
Mr Sunak, who was campaigning for the Tory leadership at the time, was branded a “Reverse Robin Hood” after the clip leaked.
Labour today called for an independent investigation into the comments.